@ Week 31

Date: 21st October 2011

I had been feeling dizzy every morning when I woke up for the past weeks. So we decided to drop by Gynae to have a check-up since my bi-monthly check-up date was also approaching.

Check-up @ Week 31:
Everything is fine... My amniotic fluid level is considered OK. Baby is weighing at 1.8kgs at Week 31. Gynae informs us that baby is on his good weight. The only thing now is that baby is still in his breech position. So Gynae asked me to do some exercise every night before sleep. She advises me to be on 'knee-chest position' for a few minutes before I go to sleep. She explained to me on how to do it correctly. After I got back home, I googled and found some information on this position.

I personally find that this article is worth a reading: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ilana.m/turnbaby.htm. Do check it out ~

Hope that baby can turn his body soon when we go for the next check-up.

On the other note, during my last trip back to Taiping, Hubby's grandma bought me some ingredients to cook a drink at home myself. I do not know how to name the leaves, so I took the pictures of the ingredients needed to boil for this drink to share in my blog. Grandma told me this leaves are very common and can be found at any wet market.

~ The leaves ~

 

~ Raw Barley, Gingko Nuts and 'Gula Melaka' ~

Grandma says I can take this drink weekly as 'cooling tea' function during the end of my pregnancy period. She says according to the 'old wives tales', this drink can prevent baby from getting jaundice. I did not try this during Kimi's time, so this round no harm trying it out. So far I have boiled the drink once and the taste a bit weird. Luckily the 'gula melaka' taste is quite nice which covers up the leaves smell.

I will try to boil it another time during this coming weekend :)

Shoppings for Baby

Date: 9th October 2011

After my monthly check-up on 8th October, the next day we decided to go and shop for our baby. As our 2nd baby is a baby boy (according to the scanned results), so a lot of things do not really need to buy as we can take it from Kimi's belongings. There are some things which can be passed down from Kimi.

Milk bottles cannot be shared so we bought the Newborn Set for Baby... It took me some time to find this newborn set. I had been to a couple of Baby Fairs and a few shops selling baby stuffs but it was either sold out or no stock. I finally found this set at Mothercare, Mid Valley branch. So I quickly grabbed it. There were a few colours to choose from. I chose Blue for Baby. Hope he will like it.

Besides that, Daddy also bought a couple of mittens and booties for Baby. The 2 pairs of shirts and pants I bought earlier at supermarket. Most of the shirts for Baby will take from Kimi’s smaller size shirts and washed them for reuse purposes.

During my previous holidays, I bought a few small things for the future Baby. Although at that time, we still had no news on my 2nd pregnancy yet, I told myself, "Never mind, can buy first, perhaps not long after that I am able to use them..." Hehe... This is actually giving myself some excuses to shop! But it is ok, I finally get to use them soon :)

Baby, Mummy is going to wash them and let you wear them soon once you arrive to this wonderful world!

Mummy still needs to check on the preparations list and see what else is needed to welcome you... Hope you will like some of the things that Daddy and Mummy have prepared for you ~

Kimi Loves Puzzles

At the recent Book Fest at KLCC, we bought this Vehicles Puzzle for Kimi. After Daddy taught him for a couple of times, there was one night he sat down on his bed, took out the puzzle, and tried to do it by himself :) And to my surprise, my little boy did it all by himself!

 

 

After posted up this photo in my Facebook, an old friend of mine saw it and bought one set of Animals Puzzles for Kimi as present. So sweet of her to post it to me all the way from Penang!

 

So on last weekend, we went back to Taiping to visit Kimi. We brought back this set of puzzles for him to learn and play. We taught Kimi how to differentiate the animals and placed the correct pieces on the correct animals boards. There are a total of 8 animals puzzles. After a day of training, Kimi can do it by himself! I was so amazed by this... He knows which piece of puzzle to fit into which animal. I am really surprised. Although a few of the puzzles still need my help to guide him, he can fix most of the animals by himself! While playing with them, he learns how to pronounce the animals' names. He knows how to say a few of them such as Goose, Duck, Cow and Horse... The rest of them he is still learning how to pronounce them correctly.

 

 

I really love to see Kimi in this serious look when he is playing with his favourite activity. Kimi looks so adorable in these pictures :)

Now I know besides watching his favourite cartoons, he LOVES puzzles too!

Nutritious Weeks

After the last pregnancy check-up at my Week 28, Hubby decided to temporary send Kimi back to Taiping under the care of my PIL so that I can fully concentrate on taking care of myself. Besides to rest more, most of all, is to eat more!

My Gynae advices me to drink more water in order to increase the level of amniotic fluid in my body. Baby is on his ideal weight at Week 28. Just that in case of emergency and I need to deliver early, my Gynae hopes that the baby's weight is good enough so that he does not need to go through any extra treatments. Thanks for her advice on this!

Besides letting myself to rest more, I tried to cook some nutritious food at home for myself to eat. Hubby drove me around to find some nutritious dessert as well. Haha, I think this is more on letting me to have the privileges and excuses to eat whatever I want.... Besides that, I asked around from some friends to share their experience with me on how can I let the baby to gain more weight in a shorter time and how to increase more amniotic fluid in my body. Thanks for all the advices and tips! I really appreciate them ~

Cooking at home is not seldom thing for me to do, just that the menus I chose to cook for myself for now are some lighter and less oily food . Thanks to the unlimited Fish supply sent by my Parents all the way from Pontian! I have the freshest fish to eat all these while ~

Some of the Food I had on my Nutritious Week ~
Fish & Pork Porridge, Stir Fried Tau Fu with Veges, Steamed Fish and 'Mee Suah' Soup ~

Dessert ~ Rice Balls in Steamed Fresh Milk, ‘Double-boiled' Snow Jelly in Fresh Milk ~

Coconut Water - Some friends told me by drinking more coconut water can indirectly helps me to increase more amniotic fluid. I do not know how accurate is this, but no harm trying it!

RM3.00 for one coconut... Is it expensive?
I bought it at a stall near Kampung Chempaka. I remembered during Kimi's time, it only cost RM2.50 for one if not mistaken.

'Kampung Chicken' Soup with Red Dates ~
I boiled it in a slow cooker for 2 hours. A very sweet and delicious soup although you drink it plain in this way.... I like it a lot!

My friend told me this soup can help the baby to gain more weight, so I decided to try it. I do not know how effective is this chicken soup in helping the baby to gain to weight. But I drink it every alternate days for a week. No matter what method I use or eat, ultimate aim is to let baby and myself grow healthier!

Really hope that my next check-up, both baby and I can be in a good condition :)

Our Short 3D2N Pontian + Singapore Trip

Date: 24th September 2011

We spent the weekend in Pontian and Singapore. A rush and tiring trip as Kimi was having slightly fever the day before we travelled back to Johor. It was not easy to bring a sick toddler together with us but this trip couldn't be cancelled or postponed as I need to attend my God-Mother only son's wedding dinner...

Anyway, although tiring, we enjoyed the trip a lot as Kimi looked fine on Monday so we brought him to have a short trip in Sentosa.

As it was the F1 weekend, we couldn't get to book hotel rooms which was near to the wedding dinner venue. So we booked further a bit. Thanks to the GPS, we travelled in Singapore without much problems!

The Hotel where we stayed in Singapore ~

 

 

 

Our Short Trip to Sentosa ~ Kimi enjoyed the trained ride a lot!

 

 

 

Kimi really like birds very much!!

 

~ The Wedding Dinner Night ~

 

~ My Lovely 'Pa and Ma' with me ~

 

 

~My cousins and Me ~

 

 

~ Hubby and Me ~
Our sick Kimi looked so restless at the side....

 

When he saw us took photo, he also wanted to join, so he took his pacifier and joined us on this photo with his tired look :)

 

 

~ Speech of the Night by the Bride and Groom ~

 

Wish the newly-wed couple Happiness Forever!